I have no problem with Epic pushing for exclusives in order to put their store on the map. We've seen the exclusives strategy for decades on consoles. At least on PC you don't need to buy a 300 or 400 console in order tu play an exclusive game...
I understand the store is not as good as Steam, but it's been around for few months what did you expect ? To be it as good as Steam from Day 1?
I can understand Steam users who were expecting to play the game on Steam and cannot anymore and are pissed about it. That sucks and I simpatize. But that notion that in order to have an opinion we must be a PC gamer is flat out ridiculous !
Saying "it is a good thing and isn't a bid deal" when it doesn't affect your gaming in any sense is also ridiculous in its own way.
I game on all platforms, but say I was 100% only gaming on PC. If Microsoft bought exclusivity to a game that was once going to Playstation, and I jumped in a thread of unhappy PS gamers saying it was a good thing, wouldn't they ask me why I feel that way and question why I even say that when I don't game on consoles?
Of course YOU have no problem with Epic doing what they are
, because it doesn't affect you in any way. You can be cold and business like in your thinking, unlike those who have to decide whether to buy games on their shitty store, or to wait out the exclusivity periods.
That is the difference. You are displaying no empathy for the actual consumers which is frankly frustrating.
As far as, "their store just came out, how can they compete with Steam any other way" goes, that it how business works. You are measured against a company as it is today, not as it was at its inception. I can't open a restaurant with bad food and ask the customers to understand because the chefs across the street have been cooking longer. If I just buy up all of the ingredients thinking it will force people to eat at my shitty restaurant instead of theirs, guess what? I'll quickly find out that people would rather not go out to eat at all.
